So I called my friend today to find out his opinion on Charity because he is a medical researcher who works for LSU and he loves New Orleans as much as I do, and he also has the sensitivity of knowing good architecture and understanding the medical world. He tells me that in the next twenty to fifty years medicine and treatment is going to advance to such levels as we have never seen before…
The Walgreens opened on Canal and Carrollton and I never thought I would be happy to see a chain big box store open but there it is. Having to run to the drugstore for nursery water, formula etc has made me a chronic visitor to Walgreens. While I still try to use DeBlanc’s – our neighborhood pharmacy for prescriptions, it’s just good to have the convenience of the chain nearby – even though as typical…
The NFL is has warned several Louisiana T-shirt shops that are selling merchandise bearing the slogan “Who Dat?” and New Orleans iconic fleur de lis on it that they own the trademark, so it is sending out cease and desist letter to merchandisers. It now wants the unlicensed T-shirts and merchandise out of the stores ahead of the Super Bowl finals. ?Who Dat? is the unofficial chant song of the fans of the New Orleans Saints.…
My sister-in-law sent four Dr. Seuss books for Tin – yippee! About twenty years ago I bought all the Dr. Seuss books as I planned to give them to my child one day. Then I ended up giving the entire collection to a family member when I realized I couldn’t have children. I love Dr. Seuss – really is there any better kid (adult) book than One Fish Two Fish?
February 5th marks my and Tatjana’s two year anniversary – this time, two years ago, on Fat Tuesday I spotted Tatjana standing in front of Mimi’s in the Marigny as the St. Ann parade approached. I was dressed as a red angel and she as a Peruvian cowgirl. We have lived one zillion lifetimes in the last two years and every grain of sand that has passed through the hourglass has gone into our foundation.…
The most irreverent parade, Krewe de Vieux, kicks off Mardi Gras for us this Saturday night and as usual it is supposed to be cold. Seems to go hand and hand that when the skimpiest costumes are donned, the temperature dips. This year the theme is Fired Up and we’re having to get fired up in a hurry as it seems like the holidays have barely ended and tis the season all over again. I…
Paranoia – is the woman who stops to empty five Bunny bread bags of crumbs into the bayou in front of my house aware of my feelings about those non-native Peking Ducks? Disgust – Obama caught in the partisan backwater and the buzz is he is failing. Good grief. Why would people set him up to fail when if he fails, we fail? Does party line trump real hard choices? Joy – walking the bayou…
The beautiful art deco building that has housed Charity Hospital for as long as I’ve been alive is under worse threat with the awarding today of millions of dollars to rebuild. It seems Jindal wants to streamline the razing of an entire neighborhood in lower Midcity to make way for a suburban sprawl of hospital big box buildings rather than do what his constituents want and that is to retrofit the beautiful and historic Charity…
Two more days of maternity leave and I feel ambivalent about leaving behind these days of just being Tin’s mom. I love my job but I have to say hanging out with the little man gives me immense pleasure and now turning him over to a nanny and eventually school is just blech. On all the people who said oh, be prepared for your life to change drastically – whatever. Here’s what’s not changed, while…
Yesterday, I got off kilter – over sentimentality took me down a path of longing for all those/that who have left instead of focusing on all those/that who are here. It’s easy to get off the path because doubt sets in, worry takes over, and soon you find that you are walking a tightrope and either way is a long way to fall. We finished watching Hitchcock’s Marnie last night, our movies being carved up…